A Week’s Worth of Women in the News

So, I heard there was a presidential debate this week, but I elected to eat banana pudding and catch up on black-ish instead, sooo . . . these links have nada to do with this shitshow of an election season. Sound good? May Nov. 8 get here swiftly and Trump retreat to his gold-leafed apartment never to be heard from again.

“Sovereignty for indigenous people is only going to come about through the support of women and women’s health, in the same way that we defend and protect Mother Earth is the same way that we need to defend and protect women and the next generations of children being born.”

“We like to believe that breastfeeding is ‘natural’ in the sense that it is nurturing and sustaining, without any acknowledgement of how awful and violent the “natural” reality of human reproduction can be, and how much it can cost women.” Blackwood wrestles with breastfeeding as captivity narrative in this is thoughtful and challenging essay.